Programming in C# Jump Start

Jerry Nixon | Microsoft Developer Evangelist

Daren May | President & Co-founder, Crank211

Meet Jerry Nixon | Colorado

Microsoft Developer Evangelist
Reaching Professional & Student Communities
Teaching Developers about Windows Phone
Teaching Developers about Windows 8
Teaching Developers about XAML

http://jerrynixon.com
@jerrynixon

Meet Daren May | @darenmay

President & Co-founder, Crank211
Specializes in designing and building next-level digital
experiences

Prior to starting Crank211

CTO and VP Operations for software consultancy
Practice lead for EMC Consulting
Leveraged Microsoft technologies since Visual Studio .NET betas
Developing XAML-based solutions since the heady days of Avalon
(the early name for WPF)

Agenda for the Day

First Half | Features of C#

Second Half | Advanced C#

01 | Object Oriented Programming,

Managed Languages and C#

05 | Advanced C#, Type and Value

Validation; Encryption Techniques

02 | Constructing Complex Types; Object

Interfaces and Inheritance
03 | Code Reflection and Information;
Working with Garbage Collection

06 | Splitting Assemblies and WinMD;

Diagnostics and Instrumentation
07 | Interacting with the File System;
Leveraging Web Services

04 | Controlling Programmatic Flow;

Manipulating Types and Strings

08 | Using LINQ to Objects and XML;

Fundamentals of Serialization

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Seasoned to Intermediate Developers
Accelerated coverage of C# fundamentals expected on
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01 | Object Oriented Programming, Managed

Languages and C#

Jerry Nixon | Microsoft Developer Evangelist

Daren May | President & Co-founder, Crank211

Module Agenda
Object Oriented Programming
What is a Managed Languages
Why C# for OOP?

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Object Oriented Programming

What is an Object?
An object typically models a concept:
An object usually is something i.e. a customer
An object usually has data i.e. the customers first name
An object usually performs actions i.e. make a customer preferred

What is Object Oriented Programming?

To be object oriented, a language is designed around the
concept of objects. that are something, have certain properties
and exhibit certain behaviors. This means the language
generally includes support for:
Encapsulation
Inheritance
Polymorphism

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What is a Managed Language?

What is a Managed Language?

Managed languages depend on services provided by a runtime
environment.
C# is one of many languages that compile into managed code.
Managed code is executed by the Common Language Runtime
(CLR).
The CLR provides features such as:
Automatic memory management
Exception Handling
Standard Types
Security

Why Standard Types

Foundational building block is a Type
Metadata about space allocation
Metadata for compile-time type checking

All types have a common base - Object

Object defines ToString, so every object has a ToString function

There are 3 categories of types:

Value types these directly store values
Reference types or objects, store a reference to data
Pointer types only available in unsafe code

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Why C# for OOP?

Why Use C#?

C# (pronounced "C sharp") is a programming language that is
designed for building a variety of applications.
General Purpose
Object Oriented
Focused on dev productivity

C# has evolved over time to include many new features:

2002

2003

2005

2006

2007

2010

2012

.Net 1

.Net 1.1

.Net 2

.Net 3

.Net 3.5

.Net 4

.Net 4.5

C# 1

C# 1.2

C# 2

N/A

C# 3

C# 4

C# 5

GENERICS

VAR

DYNAMICS

ASYNC

PARTIAL CLASSES

LINQ

OPTIONAL ARGS

CALLER ATTR

ANONYMOUS

LAMBDA

COVARIANCE

NULLABLE

INITIALIZERS
AUTO PROPS
EXTENSIONS
PARTIAL METHODS

C# & Encapsulation
Encapsulation means to create a boundary around an object to
separate its external (public) behavior from its internal (private)
implementation.

Consumers of an object should only concern themselves with

what an object does, not how it does it.
C# supports encapsulation via:
Unified Type System
Classes and Interfaces
Properties, Methods and Events

C# & Inheritance
C# implements Inheritance in two ways:
A class may inherit from a single base class
A class may implement zero or more Interfaces

C# & Polymorphism
A class can be used as its own type, cast to any base types or
interface types it implements.
Objects may methods as virtual; virtual methods may be
overridden in a derived type. These are executed instead of the
base implementation.

Developer Productivity
From the outset, C# focused on making it easier for developers
to solve complex tasks without compromising elegance.
Examples :
var - simplifies variable definition while retaining strong typing
LINQ language integrated query
Lambdas a further refinement of anonymous methods used
extensively in LINQ

C# Syntax
C# syntax is based on the C & C++
syntax.
Identifiers are names of classes,
methods, variables, and so on:
Lion, Sound, MakeSound(), Console,
WriteLine()

Keywords are compiler reserved words:

public, class, string, get, set, void

What is Code Decoration?

Attributes
Associate additional metadata to types and members
Discoverable at runtime via reflection

Does C# still need comments?

Block comments
Single line comments
XML documentation
Can be extracted into separate XML files during compilation
Can be used to generate formal documentation

What are Lambda Expressions?

An enhancement of anonymous methods
An unnamed method written inline
An alternative to a delegate
At compile time a lambda expression becomes either:
An instance of a delegate
Or an expression tree

Expressions are validated at compile time, but evaluated at run

time.
Dynamic expression trees are supported

What are Anonymous Types?

Types without a design-time definition
Used extensively with LINQ

Compiler inferred types

Is it portable?

Extension Methods
Extension methods extend types without altering them.
Especially useful for extending classes that are not yours or are sealed

They are declared as static methods in a static class.

The first parameter has the this modifier
The first parameters type is the type being extended

What are Dynamics?

Instructs the compiler to ignore type checking at compile-time
Defers type checking until runtime
Simplifies interaction with COM interfaces / un-typed, external
objects
Why not use it all the time?

Create and compile simple console app

Module Recap
Object Oriented Programming
What is a Managed Languages
Why C# for OOP?

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